1 (intention) propósito; (m) objetivo; (m) we all shared a common purpose todos teníamos el mismo propósito objetivo;or she has a purpose in life tiene un objetivo una meta un norte en la vida;oror what was your purpose in going? ¿con qué intención fuiste?
what is the purpose of the meeting? secrecy was essential to our purposes the purpose of the occasion was to raise money for medical supplies they might well be prepared to do you harm in order to achieve their purpose his sole purpose was to undermine my work his purpose was to make a profit by improving the company's performance it's a film with a purpose
purpose of visit (on official form) motivo del viaje
I put that there for a purposefor he puesto eso ahí a propósito por una razón;or this is good enough for our purposes esto sirve para nuestros fines; he exploited her talent for his own purposes explotó su talento en beneficio propio; for all practical purposes en la práctica; for the purposes of this meeting para los fines de esta reunión; for the purpose of doing sth con el fin de hacer algo
for our purposes we may disregard this for all practical purposes the treaty has already ceased to exist she had to be disguised and had bought a wig for [the] purpose for [this] purpose various insurance schemes already exist for this purpose in a box placed for [that] purpose the buildings are now used as a prison, but they weren't built for that purpose for the purposes of this Act we were given the loan for the purpose of buying a car the use of nuclear energy for [military] purposes
on purposeon a propósito; adrede was it an accident or did he do it on purpose? he did it on purpose to annoy me sorry, I didn't do it on purpose
with the purpose ofwith con el fin de they purchased a flat with the purpose of renting it out I set up in business with the purpose of making a profit
2 (use) uso; (m) utilidad; (f) what is the purpose of this tool? ¿qué uso utilidad tiene esta herramienta?;or it wasn't designed for this purpose no se diseñó para este fin uso;or
to [answer] [serve] a purpose it serves a variety of purposes
to good purposegood provechosamente the money will be used to good purpose he used his past experience to good purpose
it was all to no purposeno todo fue inútil en vano;or he was wearing himself out to no purpose
you can adapt it to your own purposesown lo puede adaptar a sus necesidades
it serves no useful purposeuseful no tiene uso práctico; no tiene utilidad práctica a black coat would hardly answer the purpose here he was asked about casualties, but said it would serve no purpose to count bodies to [answer] [serve] sb's purpose it may not be a palace but it serves my purpose to have [served] one's purpose most of them are destroyed because they've served their purpose everything she said was pointed and [to] the purpose to [little] purpose all of this work is to little purpose if no finance is available ships are to little purpose without skillful seamen
3 (determination) resolución; (f) determinación; (f) his activities seem to lack purpose they accused the government of lacking purpose in handling national affairs she has given them a [sense] of purpose
to have a sense of purposesense tener un rumbo en la vida he has no sense of purpose no tiene rumbo en la vida
the teachers are enthusiastic and have a sense of purpose
she has great strength of purposestrength tiene muchísima resolución determinación;or es muy resuelta
